TEAR Australia is a movement of Australian Christians who are responding to the needs of poor communities around the world. Priority is given to supporting programs that strive to involve the most marginalized and exploited members of each community, regardless of their religious or political beliefs. State based activities and gatherings are organised by educators […]

Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down —Oscar Romero I have never met anyone who told me they were with the “Jesus Radicals”, but […]

“The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.” This site and this one carry more information on the movement. The Catholic Workers I knew ran a fantastic, shared, inner city house whose door was always open, […]

::Site Sponsor:: If you want to “Be with the poor” in more then just spirit, you want to check out (and maybe join or support) Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor. Servants is “a network of Christian teams living and working amongst the urban poor in Asia’s mega cities, participating with the poor to bring hope […]

::Site Sponsors:: “The Waiters Union is a network of residents in West End (Brisbane, Australia) who are committed to developing a sense of community in the locality . . .” and trying out the be.attitudes. The Waiters have been a supportive, formative and transformative social space for lots of folk. Dave Andrews has lived there […]

the people that be will overcome the powers that be. our power is in community, creativity, and peace. this website, this idea, was already the product of dozens of people before it was even launched. as more of us commit to changing their own lives in order to change the world, we will find community, […]